Ivan Nikolic 🆚 Goran Arsovic. Belgrade (1989) 269 move!

The game of chess became a crazy game full of magic for almost a year and it still is deep in every one of us, thanks for Mikhail Tal the pirate of Latvia. We will never forget him.

🔸Bundesliga 2018–19
🔸Round 2
⚪️Rapport,R (2726)
⚫️Areshchenko,A (2652)
🔸1-0

25.Rc1! [The Hungarian super grandmaster Richard Rapport, who has the ability to calculate very deeply, executes a completely winning plan.]

[25.Qh5!? Qg5 25...Rae8™ 26.Qg5 Qe7 27.Rc1! Qxg5 28.fxg5 Rxe6 29.Rc7 Rf7™ 30.Rxf7 Kxf7 31.Rxf5+ Kg8 32.Bd4± Bc5]

25...Qe7 [In case of accepting the piece sacrifice, the game would be continued:]

[25...Qxe3 26.Rc7 Rf6 27.Bxf6 gxf6 28.g3! Qh5 28...Rc8™ 29.Rxc8+ Nxc8 30.Qd7+–]

26.Qd4! [Rc5]

26...Rf6 27.Rc6 [¹27.Rfc2! Rc7 27...Rd8 28.Rc7 Qxc7 29.Rxc7 Rxd4 30.Bxd4‚ Rxe6 31.Rxa7 Nc8 32.Rxg7+ Kf8 33.Rxh7+– N×f5]

27...Rc8? [Making the opponent's task even easier. The more stubborn resistance would be:]

[¹27...Bb7 28.Qd6 Qxd6 29.Rxd6 Rff8 30.Rfd2 Bc8 31.Bd4+–]

28.Rfc2 Rxc6 29.Rxc6 Bb7 30.Rd6 Rf8 31.Qe5! [N×f5]

It's Grischuk-Duda in the Hamburg #GrandPrixFIDE final as MVL's battle to finally qualify for the Candidates isn't getting any easier!

In a dramatic semifinal tiebreak, Jan-Krzysztof Duda wins the second 10-minutes game against Daniil Dubov and advances to the final of FIDE Grand Prix in Hamburg!

The final between Grischuk and Duda will start on November 15 after a rest day.

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